Dickens Today by Marianne Camus

“…It is based mainly on Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit, but calls on to Great Expectations and The Old Curiosity Shop too. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…Virginia Woolf was a keen preserver of some Victorian values, and among these the art of Charles Dickens, with his representation of London, its voices, sounds, music and noises. Dickens’s Little Dorrit and its closing sentence opens up my critical track by suggesting that Woolf’s reconstruction of the past must give to Victorian sounds a role that is neither ancillary nor merely impressionistic. …”
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« I am the Resurrection and the Life » : Sydney Carton, ou les modalités du retour d’une figure familière dans A Tale of Two Cities by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…In that, Sydney Carton reminds one of Arthur Clennam (Little Dorrit), and announces the advent of later characters such as Pip (Great Expectations) and Eugene Wrayburn (Our Mutual Friend).…”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…Yet it also forms a vital undercurrent in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, a novel that fascinatingly brings in references to colonial guilt produced by the opium trade in China and the second opium war, which was waging when the novel was still being serialised, the Crimean War, and the Risorgimento. …”
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